The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
Ranked #5 in Sequel, Ranked #6 in 2019 — see more rankings.
When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.
With The Testaments, the wait is over.
Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.
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Guy Kawasaki Author & EntrepreneurI love @MargaretAtwood’s message and appreciate her efforts to prevent the end of the world. Her latest book is The Testaments, sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. 📕 Read it and spread its message to help prevent Making America Gilead again. PODCAST 🎧 https://t.co/9wBq98MWf0 https://t.co/W950dsLLN6 (Source)
Mary Burkey Obviously the book is totally fascinating as a print book. What happened with the audiobook is that because of the Netflix adaptation, a lot of the actors who were in the Netflix program were used for the audiobook production. (Source)
Peter Florence It is a completely standalone, independent novel. If you read The Handmaid’s Tale, it will satisfy some of your need for understanding what happened next. If you haven’t—and incredibly, there are people who haven’t read it—it just gives you an extremely savage and exhilarating look at contemporary life and its most alarming manifestations. (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) is ranked in the following categories:
- #81 in 21st Century
- #40 in Awarded
- #7 in Canada
- #6 in Canadian
- #35 in Conservatism
- #9 in Copenhagen
- #23 in Corruption
- #48 in Cults
- #36 in Dystopian
- #30 in Feminism
- #21 in Five
- #40 in Gender
- #37 in Goodreads
- #56 in Quarantine
- #40 in Sister
- #48 in Strong Women
- #41 in Trigger Warning
- #45 in Women
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